Dean,
You are right avoid the Geek Squad and all other similar companies. They will destroy your data at no responsibility to themselves. Look for a cleaning room and send it to them. They typically only charge for data recovered. I have used one in California and Winnipeg Canada but it has been a while and I don't have the names of the companies.
I had the Geek squad look at a crashed hard drive and they scratched the drive so bad no data cold be rescued from it. I have kept the hard drive and hoping in the near future a cleaning room has better technology and can restore some of my lost data. Especially some of my published photos.
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